Bhaswati Bhattacharjee is working on her PhD thesis as a Junior Research Fellow at the department of English of Dr. Harisingh Gour A Central University at Madhya Pradesh, India. The thrust area of her research is marginalized women’s war memoirs. She has one national and two international journal publications so far. As of now, she has presented papers at one national seminar and at one national and four international conferences, with the latest being the 6th “Migration, Adaptation and Memory” International Interdisciplinary Conference held in Gdańsk, Poland on 15-16 June 2023. She has contributed one chapter in the book titled Fourth Wave of Feminism: Reconstructing Gender Studies in Media, Law and Literature-An Insightful Interpretation and Analysis and one chapter in the book titled Identity Explorations: Dimensions and Discourses (vol 1). She is now working on two more chapters on genocide, memory, trauma studies, and liminality for two upcoming volumes to be published by Routledge and Vernon Press respectively. She has joined Genocide Watch as a Research Intern and will be working with the “Femicide/Rape as an Act of Genocide” taskforce. Her areas of interest include war memoirs, marginalized people’s life-writings, biopolitics, intersectionality, and genocide studies.
Askin, Kelly Dawn. War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1997.
Bashir, Halima, with Damien Lewis. Tears of the Desert: One Woman’s True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur. Hodder & Stoughton, 2008.
Bhalla, Nita. “How Mass Rape in Genocide Transformed Rwanda’s Response to AIDS.” Reuters, 11 Apr. 2019, www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1RN00B. Accessed 5 Apr. 2024.
Bhattacharjee, Bhaswati. “Silenced Screams: Genocidal Rape in Sudan.” Genocide Watch, 21 Oct. 2023, www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/silenced-screams-genocidal-rape-in-sudan. Accessed 5 Apr. 2024.
Chinkin, Christine. “Rape and Sexual Abuse of Women in International Law.” European Journal of International Law, vol. 5, no. 3, Jan. 1994, pp. 326–41. doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.ejil.a035874.
Heineman, Elizabeth D., editor. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/britishcouncilonline-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3441738.
Lamb, Christina. Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women. William Collins, 2020.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Patriarchy. Oxford UP, 1986.
Murad, Nadia. “I Was an Isis Sex Slave. I Tell My Story Because It Is the Best Weapon I Have.” The Guardian, 6 Oct. 2018, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/06/nadia-murad-isis-sex-slave-nobel-peace-prize. Accessed 10 Dec. 2023.
Murad, Nadia, with Jenna Krajeski. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight against the Islamic State. Tim Duggan Books, 2017.
Nishimwe, Consolee, edited by Bryan Black. Tested To The Limit: A Genocide Survivor’s Story Of Pain, Resilience And Hope. Balboa Press, 2012.
Skjelsbæk, Inger. “Victim and Survivor: Narrated Social Identities of Women Who Experienced Rape During the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Feminism & Psychology, vol. 16, no. 4, Nov. 2006, pp. 373–403, doi: 10.1177/0959353506068746.
“The Genocide — Nadia’s Initiative.” Nadia’s Initiative, www.nadiasinitiative.org/the-genocide.
Totten, Samuel. An Oral and Documentary History of the Darfur Genocide. Greenwood, 2011.
Totten, Samuel, and Paul R. Bartrop. “Mass Rape.” Dictionary of Genocide, vol. 2, Greenwood Press, 2008, pp. 271–72.
“Ukraine: Rape and Torture by Russian Forces Continuing, Rights Experts Report.” UN News, 25 Sept. 2023, news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141417. Accessed 5 Apr. 2024.
“Who Were the Comfort Women? -The Pacific War and Spreading Comfort Station.” Asian Women’s Fund, www.awf.or.jp/e1/facts-07.html#:~:text=%22Between%201932%20and%20the%20end,have%20survived%20these%20daily%20abuses.%22.
Whyatt, Robin. “Violence Against Native Women Has Colonial Roots.” The Progressive Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023, progressive.org/magazine/violence-against-native-women-has-colonial-roots-whyatt. Accessed 26 Mar. 2024.
“Women in Conflicts – Live Talk.” YouTube, uploaded by Council of the EU, 9 June 2022, www.youtube.com/live/OAGT6immQBM?si=dBXHRxlI7vmK7A5S. Accessed 16 Jan. 2024.
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